Odds are you didn’t receive messages of hate and violence when you were planning your outing to this year’s Charlotte Pride,. Yet, in Charlotte’s Russian sister city Voronezh, that’s exactly what LGBT activists face in their daily lives.

This year, Charlotte Pride holds its 13th annual event in the Queen City. And, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the city will have a Pride parade. As that parade is reborn and reshaped, we’re taking a look back into local history at the events that eventually gave birth to our growing annual Pride event today.

Mars in Cancer consolidates and considers action carefully. This is good. It gets you ready for the next step. So, prepare for when Mars enters Leo later this month and you pick up steam to forge ahead. You’re learning a thing or two. Show ‘em what for.

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In this issue we poise ourselves for the upcoming holiday season and have features focusing on spiritual leaders, ways to navigate visitations when there are divorced or separated parents, and the holiday dance classic "Nutcracker." We also have post-election reflections from community members, as well as news on HIV/AIDS in the South and LGBTQ health. We also have current local, regional, national and global news and interesting features along with compelling commentary.